Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-05-26
Miscellaneous Items.

st. Louis people who own several mill
ions of stock in the Granite Mountain
Mining Company, of Montana, are resist
ing the tax assessed thereon by the State
of Missouri, on the ground that the prop
erty represente ted by the stock is already
taxed in Montana. Several Of them an
nounce their determination to remove
from the State.
Judge Norton, of the Supreme Court,
has rendered a decision affirm ing the
death sentence of the lower court in the
case of the State VS.. Sneed. The case was
appealed to this court from the Jackson
County Criminal Court. The day of exc
cution in this case was fixed for June 70.
Sneed was convicted of the murder of Q.
Fl. Loomis at Kansas City IN July, 1886.
The post-office at Kenmoor, Buchanan
County, has been discontinued
ST. Louis still leads the country in the
tobacco manufacturing business.
The Kansas City Council has ordered
vigorous enforcement of the Sunday clos
ing law and the law against gamblers.
Governor Marmaduke has offered re-
ward of $500 for the arrest of James
Moore, Cooper County murderer.
Colonel J. NJ. Paramore, prominent
capitalist and railroad man of st. Louis,
died at that city few nights ago.
Treasurer McCIelland, of Lafayette
County, refuses to honor two warrants
drawn in payment of bonds, and quotes
the law to support his position.
The discussion between Mr.. M. F. Doud,
the dissenting member of the State Board
of Agriculture and ]. w. Sanborn, dean of
the Agricultural College, is gradually
growing more and more acrid and bitter.
Thomas Webb, an employe of the Bar
Der Asphalt Compan at st. Joseph, while
feeding the stone-crusher few days ago,
or hEra cd han ypl,i oh no
was using in poking down rock, in the
forehead and received probably fatal in
juries.
Some vandal entered the residence of
Joseph Strauss, a prison contractor at
Jefferson City few nights ago, and de-
stroyed about 81, 200 of furniture, clothing,
carpets, etc. Mr.. Strauss is q very quiet
and inoffensive man, and the citizens are
greatly surprised that he should be made
the victim of such an outrage.
FL. F. Hansen, Kansas City jew eler,
accompanied a young man, who gave his
name as Foster, few nights ago to SIT
Holmes street to show three gold watches
and two chains to an alleged DR.. Foster.
Hansen was shown INTO the parlor and
the young man disappeared with the jew
elry. After waiting half an hour or SO
Hansen made a few inquiries, and learned
that the young fellow had rented a room
The invitation to President and Mrs
Cleveland to visit st. Louis next fall,
signed by 10000 citizens of the Culture
Great" handsomely bound in carved
woodwork and silver, has been forward
ed to Washington in charge of commit,
tee of prominent citizens.
st. Joseph will push its cable line.
1t is said that some of the field pieces
lately used by Battery A, St Louis Light
Artillery, will be turned over to the st.
Louis police department and that a police
battery is to be formed.
After the disbandment of the First regi-
ment and Troop A, st. Louis Light Cav
airy, the colored soldiers company, the
Attuck and Sumner Guards, will be the
only regularly organized militia companies
in St Louis.
Active preparations are being made by
farmers living in the Aullville neighbor-
hood in Lafayette County to begin an ex-
terminating war againstthe wolves which
1nfest that section.
1t cost E. G. Allen, of Kansas City, five
dollars few days ago for ''mashing."'
Ed Morton, an actor, fell out of win
dow at Kansas City ard was killed.
Haight, one of the Frisco express rob-
bers, is trying to get out of prison on the
ground that the st. Louis Criminal Court
mas no jurisdiction in his case, notW1th-
standing his plea of guilty.
Governor Marmaduke has pardoned
James Thomas, sent up from st. Louis for
five years for burglary and larceny,
Thomas being in the last stages of con-
sumption, and the pardon being recon
mended by the prison physician: also Jo
siah Brown, of Texas County, sent up for
grand larceny, on the ground of excessive
punishment for trivial offense.
Mrs. George Marks was struck by light
ming at st. Joseph and killed.